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Cucumbers Farcis

Cucumbers Farcis is stuffed cucumber dish with a filling of chicken, veal, bacon, bread crumbs, cream, and egg, served with sauce au jus and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cucumbers Farcis

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel the cucumbers and scoop out the insides.

  2. In a bowl, mix chicken, veal, bacon, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, cream, and beaten egg.

  3. Fill the cucumbers with the mixture.

Stew and serve

  1. In a stewpan, place slices of bacon and add the filled cucumbers.

  2. Cover and let them stew for 1 hour.

  3. Drain and serve with sauce au jus and lemon juice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cucumber + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Chicken + vealtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Binds the minced meats and crumbs so the filling holds its shape.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and lighten the texture of the meat filling.
Cream
Adds moisture so the filling stays tender rather than dry.
Chicken
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the filling.
Veal
Adds richness and a finer texture to the meat filling.

The step that matters

Stew and serve. The filling must be fully cooked and the cucumbers kept covered while stewing so they soften gently without drying out. Cooking the mixture too hard or too long can toughen the meat and make the cucumbers watery.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, veal, bread, pepper, cream, egg, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, veal, bread, pepper, cream, egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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